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Example sentences for: heinous

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Headed by Nobel Peace Prize-winner and anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu, the committee grants amnesty to all who confess to political crimes, as long as the crimes are not "disproportionately" heinous.
The Republicans are supposed to be pretending that Bill Clinton has committed offenses so heinous that he should be the first president ever forcibly evicted from office.
heenious (heinous) Portland (Maine) Police Chief Mike Chitwood, NBC News 28 June 1996
Russia is so eager to reassert its authority that it may "gamble away its standing in the democratic world in support of a regime that has committed the most heinous human-rights abuses in modern Europe."
a heinous redistribution of wealth, [and] the exaltation of capital" (John Anderson, Newsday ). (Click here for the full Monty .)